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Got me. That being said there's been quite a lot of funding happening in Paris lately, and there are a few French companies (some of them startups) which are starting to match Crit…

For senior developers in Paris the median may be around 50-60, (most of software engineer jobs are in consultancies) but there are tech companies that pay up to twice as much . I k…

That's a glimpse of an alternate universe where technology choices were backed by actual proof. Well done Kyle Kingsbury. Moreover, all his Jepsen series are a great writeup on dis…

I wish I had coined the term, but it's taken from an actual comment: http://www.amazon.com/review/RDZBBO2Q4MI6V/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm... The 1-star reviews roughly fall in three catego…

The guilt and shame is so spot on. Living though such projects illustrated so well the "the beatings will continue until morale improves" project management school of thoughts. Thi…

Don't know about the formalization by Royce, but I've witnessed and suffered waterfall in practice - let's call it ad-hoc waterfall if you will - and it was no urban legend. And on…

Some of the criticisms are still valid: there's a definite "gossip magazine diet plan" vibe to the book, even if the clean cut from waterfall or iterative process horrors (Rational…

When dealing with this general problem, the proper tool would more likely be language/culture detection + Named-Entity Recognition. Simple regular expressions can be good enough if…

I'm gonna be That Other Guy and say that the date and phone regex are respectively english-language and US specific. So it's common for a narrow definition of common.

Old Man's War is an ironical counterpoint to Starship Troopers (something that becomes more blatant in the later novels). It's a bit like Hadelman's Forever War mixed with slapstic…

I love Verhoeven and the long running joke he played at the expense of Hollywood (mostly with Starship Troopers, Robocop, Basic Instinct and Showgirls - Flesh + Blood is great but …

In terms of threading, Ruby and Python are in the same, sad, GIL boat. The speed issue is the same, but the C libraries alleviate this somewhat (Numpy, scikit-learn and lxml come t…

An interesting retrospective. What would be interesting would be to know the challenges you've encountered once you started working as a developer. I have two questions though: I'm…

Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train…

The lack of self-awareness was hilarious: http://americablog.com/2013/07/frances-gayest-homophobes-str...

Yep, as much as I despise Zemmour, the lawsuits against him are inept. He's the ultimate troll and thrives on contreversy (and whines about "la pensée unique" while being invited p…

I'm curious to see some references and figures here. As far as I know, only Hate Speech, and holocaust-denial are forbidden. Libel laws apply too, and some people are trigger-happy…

A little context here. The FDeSouche blog (a pun on "Français de souche" which could be translated as "stock French" or "purebred French", really meaning "White French") is an extr…

According to this comment http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-... , it's custom made and based on d3.

Well, there you are: a nice explanation of HyperLogLog, along with graphs, and a javascript demo to play with. And a tribute to Philippe Flajolet who came up with the algorithm. ht…

The main article, though nice formally doesn't say anything new about subcultures and the alleged end of big C Culture - my main gripe with it being it generalizes from cultural mi…

Well, the way the SQL code in that file is ripe for SQL injection, it's possible that the database has been compromised for a while...

>God is Public spending, the clergé is the public workers that pay no taxes and get to retire early with big salaries and lots of privileges and the Tiers état is the people paying…

I'm surprised you're being surprised, since that post is pretty much on par with everything from svbtle which gets submitted here: preppy energetical pieces, self serving straight-…

And why would you (I assume you're from the US) nuke, bomb or invade Iran?